TWO Stockport brothers are breaking turnover records just a year and a half after taking over the family business.

Lee and Scott Tilley took over day-to-day management of Hazel Grove-based printers Fine Print in August 2002, when their father Jack, who founded the business 17 years earlier, retired.

Eighteen months and half a million pounds of investment later and the company is on course for a record £750,000 turnover this year.

Director Lee says that the success is down to shrewd investment.

The brothers bought a new Komori printing press in 2003, which increased their capacity by 75 per cent, and moved to larger, 4,500 square foot premises.

"It's meant we have been able to increase our capacity hugely," says Lee.

"Before the investment we were having to subcontract out a lot of work when big jobs came in because we couldn't manage it all ourselves. We have now turned that around and we are being asked to help out by other trade printers that don't have the capacity to do it themselves."